Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to make [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 2 | I tried to make it clear at an early stage my petition is a simple , straightforward one not involved with wildlife management , history or anything else like that , I simply believe that killing animals for fun is morally wrong . |
| 3 | I undertook to make it one of the priorities of our presidency of the European Community later this year to carry through an improved trade and co-operation agreement with Russia . |
| 4 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 5 | I had to make it all myself . |
| 6 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 7 | If I wanted to make it rich I 'd be Private Eye 's libel lawyer . |
| 8 | ‘ I let you think she was because I wanted to make you jealous . |
| 9 | ROS : ( Pathetic ) I wanted to make you happy . |
| 10 | Many thanks to Miss Cameron , who came every day to take the cash , to Kirsty and Pippa who were a delight to have , and to all who helped to make it such a happy week and so worthwhile for Christian Aid ’ . |
| 11 | She tried to make it sound casual but was aware that her tone had risen slightly . |
| 12 | If she meant to make us nervous , she 's succeeded as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 13 | We got to get our message back to him , and we got to make it clear . |
| 14 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | We wanted to make it simpler for people to understand . |
| 16 | We wanted to make it easier for people to get the money to which they were entitled , and I set my hand to introducing the reforms in a way that would enable people to do so . |
| 17 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
| 18 | They helped to make him unmistakable , which he liked . |
| 19 | I would say that , instead of ‘ spoon-feeding ’ the residents , they tried to make them independent . |
| 20 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 21 | He tried to make it sound fresh and exciting . |
| 22 | Nationalism did not now overthrow orders , it seemed to make them stronger . |
| 23 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 24 | This gives a sort of impression that it wished to make it easier . |
| 25 | He knew that the office staff might open it and read it so he had to make it impersonal . |
| 26 | He had to make it clear that he had learnt his lesson on tariff reform , and to do this in a way as compatible as possible with the dignity of an ex-Prime Minister . |
| 27 | ‘ He wished to make it clear for the purposes of this case that there had been a genuine company in Bombay called Rasiklal & Sons , ’ Dutta told Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 28 | I have to say , if he wanted to make me mad , he was one hundred per cent successful . |
| 29 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 30 | Sir Patrick said he wanted to make it clear to the public that the Government was backing the police to the full . |